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UC Davis is a collaborating partner in a new European effort to use DNA data to characterize and conserve life on Earth. The Biodiversity Genomics Europe consortium, launched Sept. 26, is affiliated with the Earth BioGenome Project, which has its administrative headquarters at UC Davis. Harris Lewin, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis, chairs the EBP Working Group.

The David Weaver Endowed Lecture is a yearly event hosted by the Genome Center and supported by David Weaver's Family. The series honors the memory of David L. Weaver, a distinguished biophysicist and professor at Tufts University for whom the endowment was established in 2006. The 2022 speaker at the David Weaver Endowed Lecture was Dr.

It was great to be back in person for the 2022 Halloween Symposium hosted by the DEI Task Force. The day kicked off with three selected speakers, followed by an excellent keynote from Luis Carvajal-Carmona, and ended with an in-depth discussion of the Genome Center's climate. The DEI Task Force will use the feedback from the discussion to host future events.

We thank the sponsors for supporting the Halloween Symposium and everyone for participating. 

The 2022 David L. Weaver Endowed Lecture in Biophysics and Computational Biology will feature Professor Jack W. Szostak. Szostak's talk is titled "The Origin of Cellular Life."

This post summarizes the publication "Counter the weaponization of genetics research by extremists" by Carlson et al. (2022) in Nature.

Every modern mammal, from a platypus to a blue whale, is descended from a common ancestor that lived about 180 million years ago. We don’t know a great deal about this animal, but the organization of its genome has now been computationally reconstructed by an international team of researchers. The work is published Sept. 30 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The UC Davis Genome Center DEI Committee will be hosting the 2022 Genome Center Halloween Symposium on Oct 31, 2022, from 9 am to 2 pm. The keynote speaker, Dr. Luis Carvajal-Carmona, will present "The need to diversify DNA databases and precision medicine tools: implications for advancing health equity."

The new Public Health Unit at the Student Health Center on campus was recently formed out of the activities related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Public Health Unit will focus on patient care, prevention, and campus responses to public health concerns. David Coil, previously a project scientist at the Genome Center,  will be the new public health coordinator. Congratulations, David!

Read the full press announcement here.

The University of California at Davis invites applications and nominations for the position of Faculty Director of the UC Davis Genome Center.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The UC Davis Genome Center DEI Committee is happy to announce that we'll be hosting the 2022 Genome Center Halloween Symposium on Oct 31, 2022, from 9 am to 2 pm. During this symposium, speakers share their research through talks and poster presentations. Throughout the day, labs compete for the best costume, with the winning lab receiving an award and bragging rights.

Nicole Halmai, a postdoctoral scholar in Luis Carvajal Carmona's lab, recently received a presentation award from this year's UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center's 2022 Spotlight on Early Cancer Investigators - A Cancer Research Mini-Symposium. Halmai's talk was titled "Establishing and Characterizing Patient-derived Models from Racial/Ethnic Minority Gastric Cancer Patients to Advance Cancer Precision Health Equity."

Date: October 31, 2022

Time: 9 am until 2 pm

Location: GBSF Auditorium Room 1005

Hosts: Genome Center DEI Task Force

More details to follow.

This post summarizes the publication "Healthy Davis Together: Creating a Model for Community Control of COVID-19" by Pollock et al. in the American Journal of Public Health.

Register now for the free conference Biodiversity Genomics 2022: Sequencing Genomes All Around The World, which will be held online from October 3-7. The deadline for submitting abstracts is July 31, 2022.

The Biodiversity Genomics conference is hosted by the Earth BioGenome Project, which aims to sequence all of the eukaryotic organisms on Earth in 10 years. 

Click here to register to attend.